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This old tile is set into a garden wall of a converted Coach House in Lincoln, UK. It appears to be a Victorian (?) gentleman with fairly pointed features, a tall top hat and a long, well groomed moustache. I would like to know who this person/character is and wonder if anyone here can identify it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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No luck yet But I will continue later.
I've taken a ouick peek for you but no luck yet.

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I would suggest you check with the local historical society. They often keep records that would identify such a person. Your gentleman might have been a local land owner or businessman, but not anyone famous outside of the neighborhood.

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Thank you bigredsshop and Green Witch for your interest. We have a person in the UK following up on this one but sofar without success.

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dutchy it reminds me of an advert. Some food I feel I've seen in the past here in OZ.

John Bull oats????

Its just a feeling that might help jog someones memory.

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Hi Dadpad, you know I have been thinking along the same lines, I've seen an advert. also down here, but thought it was about chocolate? Just cannot place it.

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That reminds me of a painting of Toulouse-Lautrec

http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Publications/thebulletin/spring97/Cover.jpeg

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Hi CalamityJane , thanks so much for your input, I think we are onto something here, will get in touch with my contact in the UK and will report back in due course.

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Maybe it is not a specific person or character, but just a generic representation of a well-to-do gentleman

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The T-L link looks very promising.

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Hopefully some one with local knowledge may thrown some light on the history of the plaque in coming days, will report the verdict, once known.

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Noddy24 wrote:

The T-L link looks very promising.

I am in agreement with you Noddy.

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T-L sometimes used his friend Henri Fourcade as a model in his posters and paintings.

http://www.henri-de-toulouse-lautrec.info/images/paintings/groot/235.jpg

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The image brings out the subtle psychological tensions which Lautrec often sensed in theatre audiences. Seated together in a loge, the man and woman seem to be in two different worlds: she follows the performance with program in hand, he appears lost in a melancholy reverie. The pair are reminiscent of Jane Avril and the critic Edouard Dujardin in the poster Divan Japonais although the actual models were probably the actress Emilienne d'Alençon and the banker Henri Fourcade.

source including another image of Fourcade

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Thank you JBD, I think we're heading in the right direction, all that remains now is the history of the plaque, and as I stated someone with local knowledge will visit the site in coming days.

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I would think that if the tile were a plague in praise of some local there would be some text.

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